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DR-CAFTA Falls Short on Workers’ Rights
Under...DR-CAFTA [Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement]...the weak labor laws that allow such human rights abuses to flourish could remain intact in U.S. trading partners like El Salvador...DR-CAFTA affords women and other groups that have historically faced abuse in the workplace no protection from discrimination...[The] Bush administration should renegotiate DR-CAFTA to strengthen workers’ rights protections...For Congress to oppose DR-CAFTA until it does so isn’t protectionist or anti-trade, it’s pro-human rights.